MAGPIE'S MUMBLINGS

A blog about my interests, which include crazy quilting and various and assorted other artsy pursuits and sometimes known to contain mumblings of a random nature.

Friday, December 06, 2013

The REAL studio tour!

Today, for a change of pace (and a bit of fun), I'm taking part in Week One of Vicki's Real Studio Tour. This will be a three week event with the third week being a post about the TRUE look of our working studios (no fair cheating and cleaning up prior to taking photos....ooooh.....scary!! This week we are asked to do a blog post about our favourite tool or tools we use in our studios that we re-purpose.

I actually have two tools that I couldn't live without.

1. A small pair of pliers which is absolutelyinvaluable to pull needles through heavierfabrics. Most of you know that I loveworking with recycled denim and I couldn't be

without my trusty pliers when I am trying to

handstitch.

2. This one is perhaps utterly silly, but

I use it every single time I need to

stuff anything. It's quite simply a piece

of wooden doweling - 1/4" thick.

By complete happenstance, the end(to the left in the picture) was slivererd off and it now is the most perfect shape to get stuffing into little areas. Over the years (and I've had this for probably close to 30 years!) it has worn beautifully smooth. It's the perfect length too. It's one of the irreplaceable tools I have!

Go HERE to tour the other studios and stay tunedfor part two next week!!

9 comments:

Good tips here - I will certainly be trying out both of them - I have two dolls I am looking at making and the dowel idea will come in very handy. The pliers - great idea for someone with dodgy finger joints!

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We should share this sort of stuff much much more - two really valuable tools for your needs MA.Love the idea of the stuffer as I'll be making up my Miss Rabbit for Miss Jessie soon and there'll be a whole lot of stuffing going on!!!:))